The Other Words – at Katzmann Contemporary, Toronto
Date: January 30, 10:00am – 13:00, 2016
As part of Duration & Dialogue Performance Art Festival/Symposium
Followed by a conversation with Johanna Householder (OCADU)
Chun Hua Catherine Dong with Robert Black
The Other Words is a durational performance that explores the otherness in translation. Translation is political, and translating a text is like chewing up rice and then feeding it to somebody else. Dong is interested in transfiguration and transformation – the shape and form of languages, and how translation cuts across cultural barriers and begins to address how we relate to the world.